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masticate
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. grind and knead; "masticate rubber" chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew , manducate , jaw ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, back-formation from mastication , or else from Late Latin masticatus , past participle of masticare "to chew." Related: Masticated ; masticating .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masticate \Mas"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Masticated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Masticating .] [L. masticatus, p. p. of masticare to chew, prob. fr. mastiche mastic. See Mastic .] To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I made a wad out of the young leaves and twigs and tried to masticate slowly. ▪ Meanwhile, to ferment the brew, old tribal women masticate more manioc and spit the juice into a bowl.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To chew (food). 2 (context transitive English) To grind or knead something into a pulp.
Usage examples of masticate.
The berries are to be well masticated, and the husks may be afterwards either rejected or swallowed.
After killing his victim with the fangs of his mandibles, he was not satisfied, like most Spiders, to suck her head: he chewed her whole body, shoving it piecemeal into his mouth with his palpi, after which he threw up the masticated teguments and swept them away from his lodging.
The bones are of a very glutinous nature, and can be easily masticated, while the taste of a sterlet is something between that of a barbel and a perch, the muddy flavour of the former predominating.
By masticating and macerating the valuable teachings of Jesus with their egos, they are in fact eating the body of Christ.
During July and August 1943, while Halsey and Wilkinson slowly masticated the Central Solomons, MacArthur and Barbey had to be content with digesting their easily won gains in the Trobriand Islands and Nassau Bay.
So it must be with the gastric juice of the insects which feed on pollen, without masticating it.
Gronningen said, leaning back in his own bivy and masticating the shoe-leather jerky.
Ever met a violent, aggressive hippie with an intimate knowledge of whose genitals one must masticate in order to get a building permit or to make a pot bust vanish?
It had bumps all over it, but it kept on chopping down the trees and masticating them, or at least ingesting them, and at regular intervals the rear section of it slid up, ejecting bales of cellulose and great gobbets of waste from the chewed-up trees.
Aguinaldo shoveled another forkful of breakfast into his mouth and masticated while looking a challenge at Sturgeon.
Every now and then he'd spit masticated cigar fragments onto the floor.
He removed the cigar and probed in his mouth with a finger, extracting a masticated wad of tobacco.
Finally she spat the masticated pulp into the bowl of water and stirred the fluid until it turned a milky white.
By the time she spat out the last of the masticated pulp, she was feeling light-headed.
Duke and some of the other bronzes had found pebbles that they masticated in demonstration.